Polish President says European Union does not exist
The Polish President Lech Kaczyński has recalled that, before being elected to the post of head of state, he was one of the staunchest eurosceptics. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt he declared that, “the maximum level of integration into the European Union which is currently possible has now been reached”.According to Kaczyński, the European Union is an artificial structure. Unlike at the national level, the Polish President thinks that the concept of a European people does not exist. The EU works as a “super-state”, taking over powers of the national governments, yet at the same time only has a “symbolic budget” at its disposal, which gives rise to its feebleness, marked Kaczyński.
It is no secret that the Polish leader has an extremely critical view of the European Union. Even before Poland joined the EU, when Lech Kaczyński was one of the leaders of the parliamentary opposition, he became famous as a consistent eurosceptic. As he then thought, joining the European Union would open the way for Germany to make territorial claims against Poland and he urged Europe, instead of building a “common European house”, to concentrate on developing relations with the USA as a “guarantor of peace and stability in Europe ”.
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